I'm leaving for New Haven next Monday ( Read more... )

I got a copy of my letter of admission from Yale yesterday via email (they're sending me the original via mail), so that whole thing is finally over. I need to figure out what the next step is. I'm guessing I need to apply for a visa but I've still got a little bit of time. I'll be in New Haven starting at some point in August. Classes start on ( Read more... )

The plan is to write 800 words for the term paper and then 700 for Camp Nano every day. That should get the term paper's first draft finished by next Monday or Tuesday and leave me a little under a week to do editing (I'm guessing it'll be a little over 8k long; the last paper I wrote was 17 pages long and that ended up being 7.5k). This one needs ( Read more... )

I think I have a job. It's a one-time four day teaching gig in April preparing sixteen-year-olds for their school leaving exam in English. A friend hooked me up because he's too busy and I'm mostly considering it because it pays so well that I'd even sacrifice missing three classes for it. It would be sixteen hours of work and pay 250€ (about ( Read more... )

I finally started my term paper! I'm about 400 words into it which is really great considering that this baby needs to be 8,000 words long. Oh well, at least I started it. Another problem is that even as I formulate the thesis I'm seeing that what I want to do is all over the place as I want to examine fictionality and colonial myth. But I'll ( Read more... )

Matze bought a car yesterday. He's been going on about it for two weeks now and finally found one yesterday which is a huge relief because he was stressing everyone out by only talking about cars. It's a used Ford Fiesta and he's going to pick it up later today (it all went down really fast) and he's happy about it. We're mostly sitting around at ( Read more... )

I'm going to Connecticut from September 2014 till May 2015 ( Read more... )

It was a very slow week because I had so much to do for university, so I only got around to reading one book, Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese. This is the last book about residential schools in Canada and healing that I've had to read and it was easiest although the healing discourse is not easy at all. There's a lot of hockey in the book and in ( Read more... )

It wasn’t a good week reading-wise for me as I hinted in the last post. I started with Robert Arthur Alexie’s Porcupines and China Dolls and it’s horrible. It’s supposed to be and Alexie is a great author for making me not want to read about these characters’ depressing, alcoholic lives because they are a little too real. But maybe he’s too good ( Read more... )

It’s not Monday but I was at Matze’s till yesterday and he has no internet and I was super exhausted yesterday and I read so much last week that I really wanted to post about it, so here we go.

I loved The Handmaid’s Tale so much more than when I read it in August 2011. I think I’ve figured out that I adore Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction ( ( Read more... )